ESO

In many other markets, I think this would be considered a good restaurant. The service was great. Atmosphere? Lovely. Food? Beautiful - but bland. Criminally under-salted, very little use of acids… just bland dish after bland dish. The beef tartar and egg salad were very good… everything else (8+ dishes) was bland. Feels like the kitchen needs to discover citrus, vinegar, and salt. We were at Vermuteria last month and there is simply no comparison. Won’t be coming back here. Not because the food was terrible… it wasn’t. But because it wasn’t wow. And in Tel Aviv, a restaurant needs to be wow to survive. There are just too many other phenomenal choices.

CONCLUSION: Extremely expensive, menu lacks variety and dishes are low quality and disappointing. This restaurant wont last for very long. Firstly, the menu is lacking in variety: almost all of the meat in the menu is just paper-thin slices of cervelat, making trying multiple meals disappointing. Secondly, the dishes are extremely small and expensive even for Tapas. Yes, I know Tapas has small dishes and is usually expensive in israel. As an example, we ordered three "skewers" for 28 shekels. It arrived each the size of a toothpick, containing: a single supermarket canned olive cut into two, a single grape cut into two, and one cervalat thinner than toilet paper. Yes, those same normal canned green olives you see in every supermarket with their distinctive taste. This just tells me that the restaurant doesn't care about quality - my three year old niece could probably make a better skewer, but perhaps the cervalat won't be as thin. They rely on you ordering three dishes with bread so that you won't leave starving, and try to convince you to order a fourth bread dish as an extra. Of course because the alternative is having a table full of cervalat and leaving hungrier than you came, you will buy it. Also, the kitchen had a slip-up and they forgot two of our meals for half an hour. The only dish I liked in this restaurant was the Fish Crudo, which was not bad. ------ At least the wine was good and the servers were friendly.

A bit insulting, the sangria felt concentrated, the discounted portions are really, really small. Bottom line, nice music but we won't be back.

the place itself and the food are nice. but don't go there hungry. the dishes are extremely small (per price). the "bruschetta" were good (anchovy special, the fish were good, the grapes and bresaola ok) but one bite sized . the raw fish and main dishes were very small as well. the "ptitim" main was not great. the cocktails were good as well, but even there the cups were filled 3/4 of the way. If you want to spend some time and your not hungry, the place is fine. otherwise, skip it.